{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Steps to Seeing Reality","title":"Dimensions of Seeing: Part 1","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1811,"description":"In this episode, we begin exploring the deeper dimensions of seeing. \nWe look at what it means to truly meet an object rather than merely recognize it mechanically. \nThrough examples such as a rose, a sunrise at Kanyakumari, a pencil, and everyday human interactions, we explore how labels, memory, preference, and association quietly shape perception. \nWe then move into awareness — the difference between automatic living and noticing experience while it unfolds. \nThe episode explores how awareness and meeting are related but different movements, and why both are needed for richer seeing. \nWe also explore the distinction between outer and inner objects: \nthe external world of people and events… \nand the internal world of thoughts, memories, fears, imagination, and psychological stories. \nFinally, we introduce direct perception — encountering experience before thought immediately adds labels, judgments, conclusions, and story. \nThroughout the episode, the listener is invited not merely to think about seeing… \nbut to observe how perception itself operates moment to moment in daily life. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3pdtk-B4nSdfRuuwh3xQsi4N4WuCZ9AJ3schQlhoUvg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMDYy/NjkxNGNlZjQ5ZWI3/ZTM4YTc4ZThlMzkw/MTNiZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}